Congratulations to Ben Mertz, of the Strathmore Municipal Library on his winning submission to the Create-a-Monster Contest held in October! Read his story "Vengeance" below!
Vengeance
This is a beast of nuclear rage and uncontrollable savagery. It was once a man, a quiet man who
kept mostly to himself. He worked at the sewer plant about a half a mile from the nuclear power
plant. until it was attacked by a terrorist organization called the brotherhood.
He was board,working on his status report to the town. He gave a great sigh and leaned over to
his small window out to the bright sunny day with a touch of smog and pollution from the huge
factories but he enjoyed his job most of the time, it paid well and he was not a very active person
and was slightly overweight. As he gazed out the window he caught sight of a large black van
rumbling down the old cracked pavement road down to the gigantic nuclear factory just down the
road. he immediately dismissed it as another big van of scientists heading down for work. about
20 minutes later he heard loud gunfire and banging. he quickly picked up the phone and dialed 7
for head office. what is going on!? he asked loudly, WHA- but he was cut off from the 4 mile
explosion that killed nearly everyone in range.
What emerged from the smoldering wreckage was a creature, it was on all fours and its entire
body was black from the flames. its fingernails were long and hardened so that they could be
used to pry open even the strongest of safes and could cut over twenty inches of wood with
ease. it was so thin all you could see his full rib cage and sharp pointed teeth stuck out of its
slobber covered mouth.
My monster named Vengeance who was named that after the brutal massacre of the
Brotherhood. After the explosion it immediately went after the helicopter that carried off the
terrorists. When the Brotherhood saw it running at an incredible speeds to catch up with them
one of the began to shoot at it with a large rifle,after dodging the six bullets it lept up and snapped its terrible jaws. now everyone was looking down at it. What is that? asked one. No idea, said another, but we’d better shoot it. so they shot and vengeance dodged until it ran out of breath. But then he saw its opportunity, the helicopter was starting to land to take it down. And so to make a long story short all anyone found was bones, dried blood and a massive gamma
signature. Anyway, seeing that Frankenstein would probably just charge at it Vengence would
jump out of the way and leap on it. The bites would anger him throwing it off of his back, but
eventually Vengeance would wear him down and then rip the flesh of his bones in a gory feeding
frenzy.
Ben Mertz age 12
Strathmore Alberta
Strathmore Municipal Library